New York Court of Appeals
Charles S. Glassman v. Donald W. Hyder
December 12, 196823 N.Y.2d 354
Summary
The New York Court of Appeals affirmed the Appellate Division’s order vacating the attachment of future rents and dismissing the complaint because the court found no quasi in rem jurisdiction over the nonresident owners and no in personam jurisdiction based on business transactions in New York. The court held that future rent obligations are not a debt certain enough to be attached under CPLR 5201 and that the owners’ communications did not constitute transacting business in the state. Justice Keating, dissenting, would have held future rents attachable and therefore upheld the attachment.